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Ashburn, VA

A South Riding family can thank their dog for escaping a fire early Sunday in their house, a Washington TV station reported Monday. About an hour before sunrise on Sunday, two adults and a child were awakened and alerted to the fire by the family's 14-year-old dog , according to WUSA Channel 9. The home's smoke alarms then went off and confirmed the fire, and the family evacuated the structure.Patch.com, Mon, Mar 30 2015 @ 06:32 PM

A man named as a person of interest in the disappearance of a 21-year-old Ashburn woman may have said things to his girlfriend that implicate him in the 2011 incident, a Washington TV station reported Monday. Detectives from the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office have interviewed Ronald Roldan in North Carolina about the case of Bethany Decker, who vanished four years ago from her Ashburn apartmen t, according to WJLA Channel 7. The young mother and wife of a soldier in Afghanistan was five months pregnant when she disappeared.Patch.com, Tue, Mar 31 2015 @ 11:12 AM

The plague of graffiti in the area continued last weekend, as a vandal or vandals spray-painted a home, a business and two vehicles in a neighborhood near the Sterling Plaza shopping center. Two incidents occurred on Essex Square in Sterling, according to the Loudoun County Sheriff's Office.Patch.com, Mon, Mar 30 2015 @ 03:37 PM

Loudoun County, Virginia, is known for being one of the richest counties in the area, but new data shows its students may be losing academic ground. A four-year look at how the county's minority students are doing shows there is a widening achievement gap in English and math between minority students and non-minority students, the Loudoun Times reports .WTOP-FM Washington, Mon, Mar 30 2015 @ 06:18 AM

The Loudoun County Sheriff's Office confirms that they are now investigating allegations of sexual abuse at the church. In a statement, the spokesperson said that they could not provide additional details because the investigation is still ongoing.WJLA-TV Arlington, Sun, Mar 29 2015 @ 08:04 PM

Chris Trent of Leesburg, a former member of Calvary Temple, came out to protest alleged abuse by the church, including he says, corporal punishment that left red welts on his 4-year-old son's bare bottom.Loudoun Times, Sun, Mar 29 2015 @ 02:06 PM